Crafty Cardmakers Challenge

Over at Crafty Cardmakers this week, we are looking for you to Step Away From The Square - simples - create anything other than a square card. Do go along and see my fellow DT fabulous work - they are a very talented bunch of girls who I am very proud to be associated with.





My creation this week is using the fabulous 'Inspire' image from Jenni. I folded the front of a DL card in half, matted and layered the beautiful image (after I had altered the colour using My Craft Studio), inked the edges with Black Archival ink from Whispers, added a lovely charm and sentiment, and stuck on some blingy thingys! I am a bit disappointed with my creation this week as I have had a stinker of a cold and wanted to do Jenni's digi image more justice than I have. Sorry Jenni!


I am entering this into Polka Doodles Fancy Folding Challenge - haven't the energy to find any others it will fit!!



Do go along to see Jenni's fabulous digi images!

Lovely long slim legs!

Well the weekend is almost upon us again! We have had a gorgeous day here in London but it is already starting to get a bit chilly as usual in the evenings.

This card is for 5 challenges:~ Charisma Cardz Sketch; Fab'n'Funky's Get the Photo Vibe; Totally Papercrafts Happy Birthday; Sarah Hurley Polka Dots and Circles and Polka Doodles Easel Card. Phew that was hard work! Its plain to see how it was made so I won't bore you with the instructions he he. But I WILL tell you where I got all the bits.....

Ingredients:~
Image 'Jessica' from Jenni coloured with PMs~

Skin - Blush,Ivory & Satin;

Hair - Sandstone & Caramel;

Dress and chair - Sandstone, Dusky Pink, Blossom & Dusky Rose;

Papers are freebies ~ My Minds Eye Quite Contrary Summer Papers and brown pearlised paper;

Felt flowers I made myself in Bigshot;

Pink flowers and butterfly from stash - originally from Papermania I think;

Sentiment stamp from stash.

No PMs used!

I wanted to try a card with NO Promarkers just to see if I could and this is what came out - it is going into the following challenges:~
Polka Doodles Sketch & Totally Papercrafts Clean and Simple. Ingredients:~
Images is freebie from a stamping magazine - used Whispers Archival Ink in Caramel Delight, Pine Green and Black;
Matted and layered image on card from The Papermill Shop;
Ribbons from stash;
Sentiment made using PC and the very good instructions sent to me by the fab Kerry! She is a gem!

Vintage Summer

Hi all, Well I am plased to say the rain has not gotten here yet! The clouds are looking very ominous so think I better go find my two wee boys - Sooty and Sweep - they are loving this nice weather and are out playing in the garden from morning til night! Only pop into the house every so often to make sure we are still around (and for a cuddle from Mammy of course). I got a bit lost with this card as it is supposed to be vintage, seaside and summerfun!! Yikes!! The only vintage thing is my brain today! But I will enter it into the challnge anyway - at least the sentiment looks vintage!
It is for the following challenges:~
I Love Promarkers Challenge 28 - The Seaside; Polka Doodles Challenge 33 - Vintage and Totally Papercrafts Challenge 30 - Summer Fun.

Ingredients:~
Image freebie from somewhere coloured with my fav PMs ~
Blush, Ivory & Satin for skin and sunbed;
Caramel & Sandstone for sand;
Butercup, Mustard, Meadow Green, Apple, Lavendar, Slate, Dusky Rose & Blossom for parasol;
Matted and layered onto handmade pink paper;
Backing papers from stash inked around the edges with Tattered Rose Distress Ink from Tim Holtz and distressed using my Xcut tool;
Sentiment was won in a competition;
Ribbon from stash.

Summer swirls

Using backing paper and image from My Craft Studio, I coloured it with my PMs and decoupaged some parts (birds and flowers to be exact!!) I also made the flower but not at all happy with the outcome of that attempt! My neck is awful now so this will be short post - sorry girls - I know how much you like to nose around lives he he!

Going into the following :~

Moving along with the Times

Polka Doodles No 27

Totally Papercrafts No 24.

Curtis freebie

Isn't Curtis fabulous - he is one cool dude! He is a freebie from the fabulous SJ Musings.

I coloured him with PMs and inked the edges of the white card; made the diagonally striped card myself with my PMs and stamped the sentiment with a set of 99p stamps I bought from The Range. You may also notice that I have discovered how to use a watermark on my images with our Adobe Photoshop - took me ages to get it right but think I have cracked it now!

Ingredients:~

Image 'Curtis' freebie from SJ Musings coloured with Promarkers~

Satin & Blush for skin;

Buttercup & Sandstone for his hair;

Slate for his sunglasses & shoes;

Cornflower & China Blue for his shorts with a Poppy stripe;

and Meadow Green & Apple for his shirt.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Mamidoodles ~ Blue, White and Green with hint of Red;

Polka Doodles ~ Something for a Boy;

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Inky Fingers;

I Love Promarkers ~ Stripes;

and Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch No 72.

Monkey says sorry!

Using a freebie from Bugaboo I couldn't resist this apology from him......he has such a look on his wee face poor thing - dunno what he has done but he is mighty sorry! Following Totally Papercrafts Sketch, Polka Doodles recipe for a Male Themed card and Crafty Catz Shaped Card Challenge this is what appeared.

Ingredients:~

Image freebie from Bugaboo coloured with PMs~

Spice, Shale, Blush,Dusky Pink & Satin for his body;

Cornflower & China Blue for his hat etc all wrapped up in Cool Grey 1;

Papers from My Craft Studio;

Sentiment from PC and

daps of glitter glue on the flowers & his hat!

Custard from Sugar Nellie

My mojo is on overload today - a second card for another 4 challenges. This time its for Polka Doodles 'Nursery Rhyme' Challenge; Totally Papercrafts 'Animal Magic' Challenge; Bugaboo Challenge (to use national colours etc) and Creative Inspirations 'Monochrome' Challenge No 36.

Using freebie papers from Fred She Said I created this to tie in with all 4 challenge recipes. I adore this image and as usual coloured him in with my PMs.

Ingredients:~

Stamp 'Custard' from Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers ~ Cool Grey 1 ,2 & 3 with Blossom on the flowers;

Paper freebie and glitter card from cheap shop (its fab - the black and white in particular);

Sentiment on PC and ribbon from stash.

4 Challenge card

This one is a four-challenge easel card made using MCS graphics to create the text paper faded at the edges; red heart paper from MCS too.

I am entering it into the following:~

CPS Card Sketches No 170;

Crafty Catz 'Red & Black' Challenge No 35;

Polka Doodles 'Modern/Retro Anniversday Challenge; and

Totally Papercrafts 'More than One Fold' Challenge No 19.

Ingredients are:~

Text and red heart papers made on MCS,

Black and red card from stash;

Ribbons from stash.

TFL X

Another of my Mangas!

Hello all, Today's card I made using a My Craft Studio backing paper with footballs on; my Manga coloured in with my PMs matted and layered onto card from stash; faux stitches around image and also on the inside; and a cup made with holographic mirriboard. Sentiment from PC 'Fancy a Kick About?'

















I am entering this one into 4 challenges (the most I have managed to enter with one card!!) as follows ~

Crafty Catz No 34 'The Boys are Back';
Polka Doodles No 21 'Sew and Sew' needs stitches (hence the faux stitches);
Moving Along No 48 with the Times 'Folds' (hence the easel card with added folds on face of card);
and finally,
Totally Papercrafts No 18 'Monochrome'.








Not sure what our plans are for this weekend but hope to pop on at some time to do some commenting. Have a fab long weekend!!

Miss You Mum

I made this special card for my dear old Mam who lives 600 miles away in North East Scotland. We phone each other every Sunday night and last night she said that she hadn't seen or heard from my younger sister (who lives 10 miles from her) for over a month. This really upsets me as the whole family stood over my Dad's grave 10 years ago and said we were going to look after Mam.

I know she will love this card (I try to send her on once a week).

I used my Earth Fairy Freebie from Pollycraft, coloured with my PMs, and matted and layered her on blue and orange paper from stash then stuck it all down on Dovecraft's Retro Floral.

I added buttons, ribbon and bows and made a sentiment on the PC.

I am entering this into Polka Doodles Something for Mum using blue/beige/orange Challenge No 20.

BDay for my handsome son!

This card is for Neil who will be 27 on 10th July - Gawd I feel old!!

Using Freebie papers from Polka Doodles, I created 'road like' background for the icartoon images from the Net which I partly coloured in with Promarkers.

I added bicycle tyres to match CPS Card Sketch No 167. Sentiment maded on PC and layered on holographic mirriboard.

I know this card will bring a giggle to Neil and his new wife's face as his cycling is a HUGE part of their relationship!

I am also entering it into The Creative Cottage 'One for the Boys' Challenge No 11.

Pretty fed up today with the pain in my neck - really getting me down just now but whey hey it could be a lot worse eh?

Polka Doodles Father's Day Card

This card is for Lynne (daughter) top give to Graham (her stepdad) - they do not always see eye-to-eye, but on the whole do get on with each other.

It is being entered into Polka Doodles Challenge No 19 - Dimension and Texture using their fabulous freebie this week!
This fab freebie is not just for use for Father's Day but for many other occasions.

I used my new paper crimper (grabbed it over the weekend while Graham was looking for storage boxes for his shed! I mean how can he NEED anything else for his shed??!!) to create texture in the navy blue card (from stash) and also on the 'ribbons' under the sentiment.

I left the right hand side of the text paper free to slip in the bookmark I also made from the same papers. Then finished that off with striped ribbon from stash.

Hope Lynne is happy with the outcome!